Baron Ronald Gorell Barnes Gorell

Born in 1884, the 3rd Baron Gorell was a British hereditary peer, Liberal politician, poet, author, and newspaper editor. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, trained in law, and worked on the staff of The Times before the First World War.

During the war he served in the army and later succeeded to the title in 1917 after his elder brother was killed in action. Alongside his political work in the House of Lords, he remained closely involved with literary life, serving as president of the Society of Authors and later editing The Cornhill Magazine.

His life joined public service with a lasting commitment to books and writers. Remembered as both a man of letters and a figure in British public life, he represents a generation whose literary work was deeply connected to the upheavals of the early twentieth century.